Random Shenmue III Thoughts

[swimingdeer]

maybe I'm the odd one out, but I feel like they could do promotional events for SH3,
without always having Yu Suzuki be present.
I feel like he deserve some rest and promoting the game without him present would avoid
the implication "Shenmue = Yu Suzuki".

I would be glad if they do something like :
"For this event, Yu is not here, but here are some programmers from the team."
With the implication that, yes, SH3 is brought to us by many dedicated peoples.

That said, they could have a small teaser at E3, without Yu being around.
(A special video message from him should be enough for fans to be happy.)
...
Better : Have Yu comment select footage from the game as the teaser.

[mjq jazz bar]

I don't think they want to spend time or money sending anyone from the team to events. Not the worst strategy. Better to let Deep Silver handle promotion.

[Spaghetti]

I agree that a Shenmue III showing doesn't exactly need Yu, but he's effectively the face of the project and the person most of the press would be interested in talking to (for both Shenmue III reasons and for his legacy). If there's going to be a showing of any substance at all, press interviews would be on the cards too, and that will likely be centred around Yu.

He might be accompanied by Harry Morishita, one of the producers, but I don't really expect Yu to bring like... programmers with him. Even when he does trips to Monaco, Cologne, wherever - the development is still ongoing at the studio and those programmers are probably going to be needed. Yu can at least delegate some work to Keiji Okayasu, although I have a sneaking suspicion Yu still gets work done even on the business trips.

Are you a PMP? You use a lot of project management parlance.

I'm a P-I-M-P

Sorry, no. Since Shenmue III went into development I've gotten really interested in how game development works in general, and a lot of project management terms came with that. Some of that was spurred by Yu himself talking about using Agile, which added a lot of context to what we've been seeing in the iterative approach.

[Switch]

Ryo's Japanese voice actor has tweeted an image of the script. It's huge! From what I can get from Google Translate the pages are double sided too. https://twitter.com/matsukazest/status/ ... 3463392256

[Switch]

Ryo's Japanese voice actor has tweeted an image of the script. It's huge! From what I can get from Google Translate the pages are double sided too. https://twitter.com/matsukazest/status/ ... 3463392256

I've added a translation:

https://www.phantomriverstone.com/2018/06/image-of-days-worth-of-shenmue-3-script.html

[Hazuki00]

Thanks Switch!

I wonder in how many day they'll end up this task, it seems like a lot of work!

At the end, all characters (NPCs includes) will have voices like Shenmue 1 & 2?

[The_Intruder]

What does he mean by saying while the cities may bold of smaller scale? I'm worried that the game world might be smaller than Shenmue 2

[elfshadowreaper]

I think they’ve already said it’ll be more like the size of Shenmue 1 than Shenmue 2.

[KidMarine]

Choubu alone will have around 200 NPCs (Shenmue 1 had 250 in its entirety). It's gonna be somewhere between 1 and 2 in scale.

[south carmain]

Choubu alone will have around 200 NPCs (Shenmue 1 had 250 in its entirety). It's gonna be somewhere between 1 and 2 in scale.

I thought it was going to be bigger counting the explorable countryside?

[Spaghetti]

Yu has said Bailu and Choubu will reflect the map scale of Shenmue and Shenmue II respectively.

Personally I think Matsukaze-san is speaking metaphorically - commenting on going from bustling urban areas in Yokosuka and Hong Kong, to small villages and towns in China; but still having a wealth of character dialogue to work through.

[Rikitatsu]

Choubu alone will have around 200 NPCs (Shenmue 1 had 250 in its entirety). It's gonna be somewhere between 1 and 2 in scale.

Is there a source for this? All I remember him saying is that they upped the NPC number after expanding the project scope last year, I don't remember him specifying Chobou.

[KidMarine]

Choubu alone will have around 200 NPCs (Shenmue 1 had 250 in its entirety). It's gonna be somewhere between 1 and 2 in scale.

Is there a source for this? All I remember him saying is that they upped the NPC number after expanding the project scope last year, I don't remember him specifying Chobou.

http://www.phantomriverstone.com/2017/08/4gamer-interview-with-yu-suzuki.html

[Rikitatsu]

Choubu alone will have around 200 NPCs (Shenmue 1 had 250 in its entirety). It's gonna be somewhere between 1 and 2 in scale.

Is there a source for this? All I remember him saying is that they upped the NPC number after expanding the project scope last year, I don't remember him specifying Chobou.

http://www.phantomriverstone.com/2017/08/4gamer-interview-with-yu-suzuki.html

Thanks buddy


EDIT: Interesting that he says the game starts precisely 6 hours after the ending of Shenmue 2, considering that ended around noon, 6 hours later means Shenmue 3 will start around Sunset... Which matches the released screenshots/trailers so far.

[WildManofBorneo]

Anyone know the NPC counts for Sleeping Dogs and the recent Yakuza releases?